A true net negative patch

[Arcediar-dalaran]

It counts, because they gutted the existing resource display at the same time.

[Yuriie-stormrage]

Dont feed the troll

[Dawnpaws-stormrage]

So much this.

Sure, they have had major technical screw ups in the past that caused the servers to fail for days - specifically during the WoD launch.

But the consistent nagging bugs, failed features and lack of polish on everything launched has never been as high as it is now.

Only the pedantic arguing full on server crashes are the only measure of poor release quality, or total Blizzard shills, would try to argue current quality levels are acceptable and not as bad or worse than they have ever been.

[Eryndra-wyrmrest-accord]

@Carhagen-moon-guard

The most significant bug

@Carhagen-moon-guard

impacted the Undermine Race for World First contest.

A bug affecting RWF is more significant, in your eyes, than bugs affecting the majority of the playerbase? LOL

[Carhagen-moon-guard (Carhagen)]

@Eryndra-wyrmrest-accord

A bug affecting RWF is more significant, in your eyes, than bugs affecting the majority of the playerbase? LOL

Considering that bug gave a guild (and anyone else who could replicate that bug) GM powers? Yeah, I’d say it was the most significant bug. GM powers are not supposed to be accessible to anyone but GMs.

And we don’t know how many people abused that bug. We only know that one guild found a way to get access to those powers and ripped through the Undermine raid with them, which put a lot of eyes on them for all the wrong reasons.

[Silverleigh-drakthul]

Yes, they should be embarrassed.

But I bet they aren’t because all people care about is money and they, from the president right down to the janitorial staff, know folks aren’t going to unsub en masse over this.

And we should be embarrassed about that.

@Mystgun-goldrinn

You’re not Ion, but you must be a part of the game’s staff somehow.

I am voting he has stock and is terrified it is going to drop if some damage control isn’t done.

@Mystgun-goldrinn

You can’t be seriously defending the state this patch has launched in as a player.

No, he can’t. It’s indefensible.

Because, while he is right, there are bugs that you can’t predict until a product goes live, the size and amount that is accepted today is not a result of that but of corporate greed pushing out products before they are finished, poor quality assurance and quality control, and companies using their customers as testers.

Because law makers and customers allowed this to become the industry’s standard.

And just for folk’s edification:

quality assurance vs quality control

(Quality assurance (QA) focuses on preventing defects by establishing and maintaining processes and standards throughout the development lifecycle, while quality control (QC) focuses on identifying and correcting defects after production, ensuring the final product meets quality requirements.)